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Specializing in 19th- and 20th-century first literary editions in copies made singular by their provenance, binding, or other bibliophilic rarity, the bookshop also explores fields adjacent to literature.

1210 works

Christian Bobin
Quelques jours avec elle
Cognac, Le Temps qu'il fait, (February) 1994.
Deluxe issue
$480
Christian Bobin
Ce que disait l’homme qui n’aimait pas les oiseaux
Béthunes, Brandes, (December 1983) 1984.
Deluxe issue
$960
Christian Bobin
L’Enchantement simple
Lettres vives, (February) 1986.
One of 20 deluxe copies
$840
Christian Bobin
L’Éloignement du monde
Éditions Lettres vives, (December) 1993.
Deluxe issue
$480
Christian Bobin
Une bibliothèque de nuages
Lettres vives, (September) 2006.
$480
Pascal Quignard
Performances de ténèbres
Paris, Galilée, (January) 2017.
Deluxe issue with manuscript page and author's signature
$600
Christian Bobin
Les Ruines du ciel
Paris, Gallimard, (August 24) 2009.
$360
Pascal Quignard
Hiems
Paris, Orange Export Ltd, (July) 1977.
In 1977, the year Pascal Quignard began the Petits Traités — fragmentary, rebellious texts of a curious erudition — he first published a slim volume that he would later class among his “most far-fetched arpeggio exercises,” fruits of his training in the “post-1968 underground movements” (Quignard, quoted by V. Landel, “Le passé recomposé,” Magazine littéraire…
$480
[HOUELLEBECQ]
Cahier de l’Herne
Paris, L'Herne, 2017.
A fine L'Herne volume devoted to Michel Houellebecq, covering his career as a writer and his engagement with the arts (film, music), enriched with portraits by Jean-Louis Aubert, Emmanuel Carrère, Maurice G. Dantec, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Michel Onfray, along with documents and photographic reproductions. Six texts by Houellebecq are previously unpublished.
$1,200
Guillaume Apollinaire
L’Antitradition futuriste
[Paris, June 29, 1913].
Apollinaire's own copy, on large paper
$600
Paris et ses Environs… Représentant les Vues et les Monuments les plus curieux de Paris et les Sites les plus remarquables des Environs
Paris: Maison Martinet, [1856].
Views and monuments of Paris
$240
J. M. G. Le Clézio
L’Inconnu sur la terre
Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Le Chemin", (February 14) 1978.
“I want to write for the beauty of the gaze, for the purity of language. [...] I want to write to stand on the side of animals and children, on the side of those who see the world as it is, who know all its beauty [...].” This programmatic sentence from L'Inconnu sur la terre…
$1,200
Adèle Hugo
Victor Hugo raconté par un témoin de sa vie
Paris, A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1863.
Goncourt's own copy, on Holland paper
$4,800
Christian Bobin
Noireclaire
Paris, Gallimard, (September 25) 2015.
Deluxe-paper copy
$360
Tennessee Williams
Le Printemps romain de Mrs. Stone
Paris, Plon, (December 4) 1951.
Tennessee Williams's self-portrait, bound by Mercher
$720
Jean-Paul Sartre
L’Engrenage
Paris, Nagel, (November) 1948.
Deluxe copy
$600
Julien Green
Léviathan
Paris, Plon, (March 11) 1929.
This copy is enriched by a fascinating testimony to the way Julien Green conceived and “drew” his characters — he whose first vocation was painting. In his Souvenirs of 1925, a line about a visit to the Louvre with François Mauriac dwells on this other passion: “I am not certain that Mauriac was very fond…
$1,200
[CÉLINE]
Céline au Danemark
[Copenhagen, Menton, 1948-1949].
* An autograph letter signed (210 x 297 mm), recto-verso, on the yellow laid paper Céline used during his exile, in blue ink, in a very legible hand, dated Copenhagen, 26 May 1948, and signed “L.F. Destouches”: “Chers amis, Nous avons décidé de payer encore votre loyer jusqu'au 30 septembre soit ainsi 4 mois d'avance.…
$3,000
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur
Paris, Mercure de France, (April 30) 1964.
A year after the publication of Le Procès-verbal, J. M. G. Le Clézio published this short novel with Mercure de France, its narrative unfolding over a single night. It begins at twenty-five past three in the morning, when Beaumont, the main character, is woken by a pain that seems to come from his jaw. This…
$1,800
Christian Bobin
Un livre inutile
Fata Morgana, [imp. Monti à Cognac], (February 13) 1992.
$360
Christian Bobin
Carnet du soleil
Cognac, Le Temps qu'il fait, (February) 2011.
$360
Christian Bobin
L’Homme du désastre
Paris, Fata Morgana, (October 6) 1986.
$840
Christian Bobin
La Vie passante
Paris, Fata Morgana, [imp. Monti à Cognac], (December 8) 1990.
$240
Christian Bobin
Éclat du solitaire
Paris, Fata Morgana, (October 6) 2011.
$360
Christian Bobin
Tout le monde est occupé
Paris, Mercure de France, (September 13) 1999.
$480
Christian Bobin
Louise Amour
Paris, Gallimard, (January 9) 2004.
$300
Christian Bobin
Ressusciter
Paris, Gallimard, (September 24) 2001.
$360
Christian Bobin
Un assassin blanc comme neige
Paris, Gallimard, (April 18) 2011.
$360
Christian Bobin
Une petite robe de fête
Paris, Gallimard, (April 9) 1991.
$600
Jorge Semprun
Vingt ans et un jour
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du monde entier », (May 17) 2004.
Semprún's last novel, deluxe copy
$300

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